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Kate and Sam’s Update!
We have finally uploaded and labeled all of Sam’s footage for the movie. We then ordered the clips to create a meaningful and coherent story of her day. After a lot of discussion of the clip placement, Sam chose different songs to pair with each clip or group of clips that add more emotion to the footage. We have already discussed certain editing techniques and transitions that we want to use and we are really excited to start putting it all together on Final Cut Pro next week! Wahoo! 🙂
W.W.S.D.
Update.
Hi there, fellow human beings.
Joe and I are still working on our latest project, W.W.S.D. We have taken most of your opinions for the main question. Some of you we gave time to think, while others we asked spontaneously. I explained as to why that was in the last update. I also wrote down some new question for the refection that will be also in the video. Today we did get far.
Later,
Hanna
First Day Uploading!!
Today we uploaded our first footage of Sam’s day. We also finalized the songs that we are going to use for our film and saved the mp3 files on a USB drive. We had a few technical difficulties with having enough space for the movie footage, but we eventually found a large enough USB to fit everything. Sam is going to continue filming. The footage we have now are just general activities she does every day, for example: seeing the sun rise (she wakes up at 5:00am every morning), walking to school, hanging with friends, playing the violin, etc. For the next set of clips she is going to answer the questions that we planned to guide the film. We will also be brainstorming creative titles for the movie.
Here is the song we are thinking of using to open up the film:Snow Patrol – Open Your Eyes lyrics
W.W.S.D. Update.
So, its Hanna.
Right now, we are filming people and giving them time to think about the question. While to some other kids/adults, we are asking them on the spot to get their first reaction. Its important to give people time to think, and to ask some other people on the spot because their reaction might change as soon as they start thinking it soon. For example, I ask a person what do do you think of global warming? At first the person may say, thats sad, or we should do something but the when the person starts to think, they may come up with the conclusion that the damage isn’t too bad.
Until then.
Hanna’s new project: W.W.S.D?
Life in a Day (Planning Stages)
For our project we are going to film Sam and several of her friends’ days from waking up in the morning to going to bed at night, while asking various questions to guide the movie along. Sam’s movie is based off of a Sundance Festival movie in which people from all over the world filmed their days and sent in their footage to a director. The director edited over 4,500 hours of footage together to make a meaningful movie, titled Life in a Day.
Today we brainstormed the following questions:
1. What did you dream last night?
2. What’s in your backpack?
3. What are your pet peeves?
4. What are your dreams/goals in life?
We also thought about the kind of music we will be using. We tried to pick a variety of music genres to portray different emotions and feelings that Sam and her friends feel throughout the day.
Sam
Hi my name is samantha, i am an 8th grader a poughkeepsie middle school. i guess i could consider music one of my hobbies because its such a big part of my life. i’ve been playing the violin for about a year and a half now and i would never even consider quitting. I also like indie rock music. im not a big fan of hip hop. i am very athletic. i do sports like cheerleading and crew. im kind of an excersice fanatic. even though i like living in the present my future goals would probably be to become a better violinist than my teacher and also one day maybe go into the olympics with my freinds by my side. 😀
Here is my favorite song: